Samuel M. Shortridge

Samuel Morgan Shortridge (3 August 1861-15 January 1952) was a US Senator from California (R) from 4 March 1921 to 4 March 1933, succeeding James D. Phelan and preceding William G. McAdoo.

Biography
Samuel Morgna Shortridge was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa in 1861, and his family settled in San Jose, California in 1875. He practiced law in San Francisco for most of his life, and he was elected to the US Senate in 1921 after riding on Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy" campaign. He became a prominent voice for anti-Japanese racism in his state, with even pro-white immigration activists opposing his unnecessary views. From 1939 to 1943, he served as a special attorney for the Justice Department in Washington DC, and he died in 1952.